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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
palate/ˈpalət/
▶noun
- 1 the roof of the mouth, separating the cavities of the mouth and nose in vertebrates.
- 2 a person's ability to distinguish between and appreciate different flavours.
- 3 the flavour of a wine or beer.
– origin ME: from L. palatum.
'palate' also found in these Oxford entries:
articulator
- cleft lip
- cleft palate
- click
- coronal
- front
- hard palate
- high
- labiovelar
- nasopharynx
- oropharynx
- palatal
- palatine
- plosive
- retroflex
- roof of the mouth
- soft palate
- trill
- uvula
- velar
- velum
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